YEAR-BY-YEAR RANKING: 1972

 

1. THE GODFATHER
2. 1776
3. DRACULA A.D. 1972
4. HORROR EXPRESS
5. THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE
6. A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS
7. SOLARIS
8. CRIES AND WHISPERS
9. THE RULING CLASS
10. SLEUTH
11. SITTING TARGET
12. TALES FROM THE CRYPT
13. DUFFER
14. THE NIGHT STALKER
15. AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD
16. THE AGE OF THE MEDICI
17. THE WAY OF THE DRAGON
18. FEMALE PRISONER #701:  SCORPION
19. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
20. CABARET
21. BLAISE PASCAL
22. LONE WOLF & CUB:  BABY-CART AT THE RIVER STYX
23. LONE WOLF & CUB:  SWORD OF VENGEANCE
24. DELIVERANCE
25. STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING
26. DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING
27. THE GRAND DUEL
28. CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS
29. THE HARDER THEY COME
30. THE STONE TAPE
31. THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
32. FIST OF FURY
33. BLACULA
34. FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH
35. SUPER FLY
36. TOWER OF EVIL
37. THE BLOOD-SPATTERED BRIDE
38. THE REVENGERS
39. WHO SAW HER DIE?
40. TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD
41. ASYLUM
42. THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK
43. BLACK GUNN
44. SLAUGHTER
45. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?
46. TROUBLE MAN
47. THE ITALIAN CONNECTION
48. WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO?
49. CALIBER 9
50. FRITZ THE CAT
51. SNOOPY COME HOME
52. HOTEL MONTEREY
53. FRENZY
54. NEITHER THE SAND NOR THE SEA
55. DEMONS OF THE MIND
56. ACROSS 110TH STREET
57. DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN
58. A DAY OUT
59. DEATH LINE
60. DOOMWATCH
61. SILENT RUNNING
62. BAFFLED!
63. KANSAS CITY BOMBER
64. THE UNHOLY ROLLERS
65. DAUGHTERS OF SATAN
66. BARON BLOOD
67. LE CHAMBRE
68. FROGS
69. FURY OF THE WOLF MAN
70. NEAREST AND DEAREST
71. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS
72. THE MUMMIES OF GUANAJUATO
73. THE DEATHLESS DEVIL
74. BORN TO BOOGIE
75. VAMPIRE CIRCUS
76. SEVEN BLOOD-STAINED ORCHIDS
77. GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE
78. THE ASPHYX
79. MACABRE SERENADE
80. FEAR IN THE NIGHT
81. BIGFOOT:  MAN OR BEAST?
82. THE SCREAMING WOMAN
83. THE EYES OF CHARLES SAND
84. STANLEY
85. THE GETAWAY
86. EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX *BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
87. AVANTI!
88. ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNKNOWN
89. MURDER MANSION
90. THE CREMATORS
91. THE THING WITH TWO HEADS
92. FOR THE LOVE OF ADA
93. LAST TANGO IN PARIS
94. AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL
95. LEGEND OF HORROR
96. GARGOYLES
97. DRACULA, PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN
98. CANCEL MY RESERVATION
99. SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT
100. THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
101. BLOOD SABBATH